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Plymouth
Soroptimists, in conjunction with several prominent Plymouth organisations
(see below), hosted a breast cancer awareness campaign in Plymouth and
the surrounding areas.
The following events took
place:
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A manned
‘Wishing Tree’ made by the College of Art
& Design was sited in House of Fraser for 1 week, followed by
another week in Drake Circus Shopping
Centre, People bought a Wish, Hope or Dream for £1 and hung it on the tree, with proceeds going to Breast
Cancer Care. Collections were made in aid of Breast Cancer
Care and we collected £5,200 including £1800 from the
Wishing Tree.
It is hoped that the
wishes can be turned into a book with proceeds also going to Breast
Cancer.
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A Fashion Event was also
held at Drake Circus shopping mall. At the same time there was an
Education & Awareness exhibition.
Click here to go to
photogallery, then click on Fashion Show.
Cheque presentation of £5,200 to Breast
Cancer Care
In spite of the unkind
weather,
approx. 600 people turned up dressed in PINK on the Armada Way Piazza
in Plymouth City Centre,
to form a human ribbon in the shape of the Breast Cancer ribbon. A
helicopter from Hovercam together with the Fire Service aerial platform from
Green Watch, enabled us to have some very good
The event
was
attended by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.
The
Herald had
been running editorial on the event and gave the whole ‘HER’
supplement over to Project Pink on the Wednesday before the event. The
supplement was coloured pink! OCEAN MINI was our major sponsor and generously donated £2000 towards the project
negotiated by EVENTsw.
Plymouth Sound
provided a Thunder Crew together with Amy Johnson, Choreographer , who
worked tremendously hard to make the event a success. They also ran a competition from Monday 29th September to Thursday 2nd October,
for two lucky listeners to win a hair & beauty makeover on Saturday 4th
October, in conjunction with Project Pink. This competition along with the presenter talk-ups, website presence
and Thunder activity on Saturday 4th October at the Piazza was free of
charge.
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We were
invited to make a presentation to our Federation Conference in Barbados to
be given by one of our members. Click here for
more details. |
For further
details please ring 07526 685203/07812 108525, or
email from here.
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